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Nicolas Marie Gatteaux

 
Nicolas Marie Gatteaux

18th-19th century
(1751 - 1832)

A student of Delorme and Gros, Gatteaux was at the Paris medal mint from 1773, and was named "Graveur des Medailles du Roi" in 1781. He was a prolific medalist. See Forrer 2, pp. 209-13; 7, p. 342; Thieme-Becker 13, p. 248; Pyke, p. 52. --- from The Molinari Collection, Andrea S. Norris and Ingrid Weber, Published by Bowdoin College, 1976

5 objects

Joseph'Jerome Lefrancois de Lalande

1787
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.130.41.a
 

Louis XVI (1754–1793), Aerostatic Experiments of the Montgolfier Brothers

1783
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.131.24.a
 

Trompe l’oeil with assignats and Callot’s Beggar

ca. 1795-1797
color etching and aquatint with watercolor on laid paper
Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund
2010.6
 

Louis XVI (1754–1793), Aerostatic Experiments of the Montgolfier Brothers

1783
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.131.24.b
 

Joseph'Jerome Lefrancois de Lalande

1787
bronze
Gift of Amanda Marchesa Molinari
1966.130.41.b